General Discussion

Ive been really into portable apps for a few years...

And, being the true geek that i am... i'm always searching for a smaller, niftier USB flash drive to hold them all in.

Now. Ive recently noticed the sony microvault tiny...
Looks good. looks small.. but sony have done something to it to enable it to compress or encrypt data and allow it to store 3 times as much..

Will this affect portable apps? and if so, how??

any ideas would be very much appreciated

Many thanks
John

Is it possible to use Ceedo's Argo to install an app, and then run it from PortableApps Start Menu, but yet still accomplish true portability? Maybe a PortableApps.com version of ceedo is next!!!!!

I just installed the base version of PortableApps and placed my pre-existing apps (PortableFirefox, Thunderbird, etc)in folders next to the menu folder as explained in the instructions. When I refreshed the menu, the apps show up in the menu and they run fine but the menu only has generic system .exe system icons, every app has the same one! The right-side folder icons for documents etc are fine.

Any suggestions?

I noticed when I updated Firefox that it changed the name in PAM to Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition and I noticed the same name change for Sunbird but not for Thunderbird. The two questions I have is why the name change for the two first apps and not the third? and if I just update firefox directly and not download it from the website am I missing out on anything??

Just courious..............

on main page stands 'Audacity Portable 0.2.6 Rv 2', while its 'Audacity Portable 1.2.6 Rv 2'. just a small thing.

keep up the great work.

Anyone tried mojopac?
Seems like a nice idea, personally didn't care for the cutsie interface.
Would prefer a "plain" bar I can customize myself if I wanted to.
Also the options on the bar seemed incomplete and counter-intuitive.

Anyone else have an opinion or experience?

These applications also work well when run from a fixed hard drive instead of a USB stick (or similar), and it makes it trivial to back up the full application, move it to another machine retaining settings, etc. In my opinion, for these reasons, they're much better than their non-portable equivalents.

Just a note for all, the PortableApps.com main server is being upgraded tomorrow morning (March 1st) between the hours of 5am and 6am New York time. We'll be upgrading to two dual-core AMD Opteron 270 processors and 8GB of RAM. The upgrades are necessary to handle the ever-increasing load on the site as the number of unique visitors increases daily.

On a related note, the downloads server is coming online the end of this week / beginning of next. This is the server will allow us to host a select few non open source apps that have been asked for many times by the community.

Regards,

Does anyone else have a missing search bar? I see the link, and it works, but no text box.

Does anyone know if DOS can write any settings to the registry? because if it doesn't, there would be over 200 DOS games that are portable.